I had an extreme case of satisfaction in my PhD meeting today. Despite their concerns about me juggling too many projects I was able to send them a full draft of the first publication for my PhD. For anyone that has forgotten that is a scoping literature review where I personally applied inclusion/exclustion criteria to over 3600 search results. Now the draft was by no means perfect, it was a draft. But it was pretty solid and I had done a lot of the tedious things like putting it into the template for the journal and checking the reference list. My supervisors only had minor things to say about it and were quite happy with the work I had put into it. I just felt like it was a solid output and I could clearly demonstrate the work I had put in. No one could question that – so that equalled satisfaction galore!

I have feedback from my PhD ethics application. Minor revisions required, which I expected and is totally normal, although there’s some chance my supervisors will view that as a failure on my part.

In other news, I think I’ll be invovled in another autoethnography with the Wellbeing SIG but I’ll be leading this one. It is still forming now, so nothing is certain. So far only Susan Hopkins has agreed to join me! Liam joined us in the first meeting for the year. I thought it might be awkward because we used to work together but it wasn’t at all. Respect.

I have neglected the UNESCO project and the Meme project but I’ve put a chunk of time into other things. The self-efficacy book chapter with Trixie is almost ready to go and obvioulsy I finished off the PhD article as well. The covid article with Sue is just waiting on an answer from the journal because their website says Harvard referencing and then provides examples that are clearly APA and not Harvard. I’ve also done a bit on the social innovation article but that is all happening within a weekly meeting, so I’m not sure that counts.

In the NAEEA project I have had 12 responses to the survey and around 5 of those have agreed to do part two, the email interview. I’d like a few more responses but if that’s all I get I’ll run with it!

I’ve also had a great time teaching. My Essay Writing group on campus is pretty small but they are engaged. My online group seems to be less engaged but I’m only judging that by the number of emails I have recieved. I haven’t had any issues with the ALC stuff either, including the workshop I did last night. So far, all smooth. All in all, until marking the first assessment hits I would predict smooth sailing in regards to teaching this term. Maybe I shouldn’t have explicitly said that because Murphy’s Law might come into play!